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[N. S. Vol. XXXIII. No. 840 



" Itinerario de la expedicion de Hernan Cortgs 

 a Hibueras," Marcos E. Becerra.' 



"El testamento de Hernan Cortgs," Francisco 

 Fernandez del Castillo. 



"Une mappe inedite de 1534, avec texte es- 

 pagnol au verso," Louis Capitan. 



" L'ceuvre ggographique de Humboldt en Mex- 

 ique," Eugen Oberliummer. 



" Les observations g^ographiques dans les let- 

 tres de Cortes," Eugen Oberhummer." 



"Resumen de mis estudios de documentos del 

 siglo XV contenidos en el Archivo General y 

 Publico de la Nacion," Zelia Nuttall. 



" Algunos de los primeros establecimientos de 

 ins'truccion en el Reino de Nueva Galicia," Fran- 

 cisco Escudero.' 



" Estudio geografico, historico, etnografico y 

 arqueologico de la Republica de El Salvador," 

 Leopold© A. Rodriguez. 



" Breves notas sobre la historia, la arqueologJa 

 y la etnogenia del territorio de Tepic," Francisco 

 A. Flores. 



" Notes sur le Mexique," Auguste Genin.' 



" A Manuscript in Washington," Charles War- 

 ren Currier.' 



" El Votan," Enrique Santibanez. 



" Photographic Notes on the Pueblo Indians 

 of Southwestern United States," Frederick I. 

 Monsen.' 



" Estudio sobre la teoria del origen oriental de 

 algunas razas americanas," Manuel Cortes.' 



" Chronological Sequence of the Sculptures of 

 Copan," Herbert J. Spinden. 



" Sobre algunas representaciones del dios Huit- 

 zilopochtli," Hermann Beyer.' 



" Une figuration de Quetzalcoatl sous forme de 

 serpent emplumfi enroulS, provenant de Mexico," 

 Louis Capitan. 



" La stylisation de la figure humaine et la 

 representation des sacrifices humains sur les vases 

 peints preincasiques de Vazca (P^rou)," Louis 

 Capitan. 



" Miniature Clay Temples of Ancient Mexico," 

 H. Newell Wardle. 



" An Aztec ' Calendar Stone ' in the Yale Uni- 

 versity Museum," George Grant MacCurdy. 



" Elements of Kato, an Athabascan Dialect," 

 Pliny E. Goddard. 



" Las ruinas de Usmal," Eduardo Seler. 



' Read by title, but will be published in the 

 Gompte rendu of the congress. 



" The Ruins of Northeastern Guatemala," 

 Alfred M. Tozzer. 



■' Un dato sobre la evolucion del alfabeto entre 

 los azteoa y los maya," Jestis Diaz de Le5n. 



" La reparacion de las ruinas de Xochicalco," 

 Leopoldo Batres. 



" Estudio comparativo de dos documentos his- 

 toricos," Antonio Garcia Cubas.' 



" Some Points in Louisiana Cartography," 

 William Beer. 



" Three Centuries of Total Eclipses of the Sun 

 in Mexico: 1850-2150," David Todd.' 



" Central and South America — Governmental 

 Cooperation the Key to Great Opportunity," 

 Louis E. Walkins.' 



" RgsumS of the Papers, read at the Sixteenth 

 Congress held at Vienna, on Mexican History, 

 Architecture, Art, etc." Franz Heger. 



George Grant MacCurdy 



Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



THE NEW PLAN FOB ADMISSION TO 

 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 



On January 17 the Faculty of Arts and Scir 

 ences of Harvard University voted to adopt 

 tlie plan of admission as given below as an 

 alternative to the system at present in force. 

 The plan, it will be noted, is a compromise be- 

 tween the certificate and examination meth- 

 ods. It is intended to obviate " cramming " 

 for examinations and to improve articulation 

 with secondary schools, especially public high 

 schools. 



A. Evidence of the completion of an approved 

 secondary school course. 



1. Tabulated statement. A candidate shall pre- 

 sent to the committee appointed to administer 

 this plan evidence as to his secondary school work 

 in the form of an ofiicial detailed statement show- 

 ing: (a) The subjects studied by him and the 

 ground covered. (6) The amount of time devoted 

 to each, (c) The quality of his work in each 

 subject. 



2. Approved school course. An " approved sec- 

 ondary school course" must (a) extend over four 

 years; (6) concern itself chiefly with languages, 

 science, mathematics and history. No one of these 

 four subjects may be omitted. At least two 

 studies of a candidate's school program must be 

 carried to the stage required by the present ad- 

 vanced examinations of Harvard College, or by 



